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Curry Chicken Salad

By: Melissa / Updated: May 19, 2026

This curry chicken salad makes a unique and tangy chicken salad with a hint of cilantro. It's creamy, yet light and loaded with crispy bell peppers, golden raisins, and crunchy cashews. Served on pita bread or toast, this flavorful chicken salad makes a great lunch or a side dish.

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An open face sandwich, showing the inside salad mixture before being assembled.

What I love about this curry chicken salad

I tried curry chicken salad a long time ago at one restaurant or another and loved it. Then I didn’t even think about again it until the other day when I saw something about it on Pinterest. Suddenly, I just had to have it. The next day I went to the store to pick up some ingredients and made it immediately.

More chicken salad recipes: deli style cranberry chicken salad / dairy free chicken salad / spicy cilantro chicken salad

A close-up of a sandwich filled with a creamy curry chicken salad mixture, possibly with avocado and greens, on multigrain bread, served on a white plate with a red cloth underneath.

Ingredient notes:

Chicken – We cooked some chicken breasts and let them cool before chopping them for this recipe, but you can use any type of pre-cooked chicken you prefer.
Mayonnaise – You can use your favorite mayo, we opt for a light mayo a lot of times which is what we did for this recipe. Go ahead and swap it for a vegan alternative to make this recipe egg free.

Making changes to a recipe can result in recipe failure. Any substitutions listed are simple changes that I believe will work in this recipe, but results are not guaranteed.

A mixing bowl filled with curry chicken salad.

How to make curry chicken salad

Chop and dice. Dice the chicken, onion, celery and bell pepper and place them in a large mixing bowl. Give the cashews a rough chop, adding them to the mixing bowl along with golden raisins and chopped cilantro.

Stir in dressing ingredients. Add mayonnaise, curry powder, turmeric, salt and pepper then, using a rubber spatula stir to combine. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

You can serve this on toast, on a lettuce wrap or in a bowl all by itself.

More curry recipes: Thai chicken meatball curry / curry chickpea salad / chicken tikka masala / coconut curry salmon

Hi! I'm Melissa.

I create easy, dairy free recipes because I know how hard living without milk can be. I believe you can live a completely satisfying life without dairy, and I want to teach you how.